New Color Chooser in JDK 7
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Join For Free Many changes in Swing will appear in JDK 7 including a new date chooser. I've recently noticed that the JColorChooser has also improved in JDK 7 adding new ways to select the color and adding support for transparency.
I'm quite please with it as for my photo editor Decoration I added a Transparency tab to the standard color chooser.
In Java 6 you have 3 tabs: Swatches, HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) and RGB (Red, Green, Blue).
In Java 7 you have 5 tabs: Swatches, HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value), HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness), RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK).
The HSV and HSL tabs have a transparency slider (from 0 to 100).
The RGB and CMYK tabs have an alpha slider (from 0 to 255).
Note also that the size of the JColorChooser window has increased.
And here are the screenshots:
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